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Muskingum Conference in 1829, had grown 
o large proportions by the meeting of the Gen- 
eral Conference in 1853. The Bevers, Brights^ 
Lillibridges, Longs, and other ministers had built 
up a flourishing conference, which as to members, 
wealth, and intelligence had become one of the 
first in the whole denomination. It took a lead- 
ing part in diffusing the principles which led to 
the organization of the missionary society. At 
the annual conference in 1852, a committee, of 
which Bev. J. C. Bright was chairman, made in 
substance the following report on missions, which 
was unanimously adopted by the conference : 
I. That the time has now come when the 
United Brethren Church should unite her whole 
strength in a missionary society, which shall in- 
clude not only the home but the frontier and for- 
eign field within the sphere of its labors. 
II. That Sandusky Conference organize it- 
self into a branch missionary society, with the 
prayer that the General Conference will form a 
general society, of which each conference may be 
a branch. 
III. That the payment of one dollar shall con- 
stitute a person a member of the society for one 
year ten dollars a life member, and fifty dollars 
a life director. 
IV. That our brethren be entreated to exercise 
